Blue Bird Conventional School Bus, All American School Bus, Conventional Non-School Bus, All Canadian Non-School Bus. Published by Transport Canada as 1977155 on 9 February 1978. System: Other.
What the notice says The operating mechanism whthin the emergency door lock can become dislodged preventing proper operation of the emergency door as required by c.m.v.s.s. 217 - window retention and emergency exits.
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Blue Bird CONVENTIONAL SCHOOL BUS in the other registers
This site holds seven national and European registers. Blue Bird CONVENTIONAL SCHOOL BUS is named on 1 American notices. Those are separate campaigns, filed with separate authorities on their own schedules.
The American register
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What Transport Canada published
- Recall number
- 1977155
- Recall date
- 9 February 1978
- Make
- Blue Bird
- Models
- Conventional School Bus, All American School Bus, Conventional Non-School Bus, All Canadian Non-School Bus
- Model years
- 1977
- Vehicle class
- School Bus
- System
- Other
- Raised as
- Safety MFR
- Vehicles affected
- 1,159
- Register
- Canada — Transport Canada, Vehicle Recalls Database
THE OPERATING MECHANISM WHTHIN THE EMERGENCY DOOR LOCK CAN BECOME DISLODGED PREVENTING PROPER OPERATION OF THE EMERGENCY DOOR AS REQUIRED BY C.M.V.S.S. 217 - WINDOW RETENTION AND EMERGENCY EXITS.
Transport Canada recorded this notice in capitals, as its system did for many years. It is reproduced here exactly as published.
The wording above is the department's own, as it stood in the monthly file this site last read. Vehicle counts are the sum of the counts published for each make and model the recall covers. To act on a recall, use the official notice: Transport Canada recall 1977155.
Blue Bird elsewhere in this register
Blue Bird is named on 242 notices in the copy of Transport Canada’s register held here, of which these are the nearest to this one in time.
- 1978005 · 11 April 1978 · All Canadian School Bus, All Canadian Non-School Bus · Suspension
- 1978143 · 12 December 1978 · Conventional School Bus, All Canadian Non-School Bus, Conventional Non-School Bus · Structure
- 1977101 · 17 November 1977 · All Canadian School Bus, All Canadian Non-School Bus · Lights And Instruments
- 1977026 · 28 June 1977 · All Canadian School Bus, All Canadian Non-School Bus · Fuel System
- 1978148 · 7 November 1979 · All Canadian Non-School Bus, All Canadian School Bus · Electrical
- 1979184 · 7 November 1979 · All Canadian School Bus, All Canadian Non-School Bus · Brakes
- 1976122 · 5 November 1976 · All Canadian School Bus, All Canadian Non-School Bus · Suspension
- 1976105 · 10 September 1976 · All Canadian Non-School Bus, All Canadian School Bus · Brakes
The same system: Other
398 notices in this register name Other. A defect that keeps returning under one heading is worth reading as a group rather than one notice at a time.
- 1978002 · 4 April 1978 · D100 · Other
- 1978113 · 18 October 1978 · B Series, L Series, F Series · Other
- 1979124 · 19 July 1979 · Conventional · Other
- 1980019 · 13 February 1980 · All Canadian School Bus · Other
- 1975009 · 2 April 1975 · Imperial · Other
- 1981020 · 3 February 1981 · Mc-9, Crusader Ii · Other
Reading this against the source
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What the words on this notice mean — the system it is filed under, and what the filing type says about who found the fault.
This notice names one vehicle among several registers that have written about it. Every notice this site holds for the Blue Bird All American School Bus, in all seven, is kept on that vehicle's own page, with the newest in each.
This register keeps an index of its own for every maker and every year it holds: Canadian recalls on a Blue Bird: 242 in the register, and 150 Canadian vehicle recalls filed in 1978.
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